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At one time the US and Latin America defined themselves in common as new and American, in contrast to the old, European order, and they enjoyed a period of friendship and cooperation based on that sustaining sense of commonality. With the advent of the Cold War, however, hemispheric solidarity and alliance faded fast, as the US became preoccupied with other regions of the world it deemed of deeper strategic significance. The United States and Latin America now largely define each other as negative reference points, instead of as neighbors and allies. In Troubled Neighbors, Henry Raymont-journalist for four decades, author, lecturer, teacher, and consultant-presents a journalist’s observations on the pendulum swings in US-Latin American relations over the past half-century. The book is organized chronologically, with a chapter devoted to each of the administrations from FDR to Bill Clinton and an epilogue covering the first term of the George W. Bush administration.
About the Author
Henry Raymont is a syndicated columnist for numerous Latin American newspapers and periodicals, including El Panama America (Panama), O Estado (Sao Paulo, Brazil), La Nacion (Buenos Aires), and Reforma (Mexico). He has been a journalist covering Latin America since the 1950s, including 18 years with UPI and 12 years with The New York Times. Alejandro Orfila, the Organization of American States Secretary General and former Argentine ambassador to Washington, appointed him as the Director of Cultural Affairs at the OAS. Henry Raymont currently holds a chair as visiting professor at the Freie Universitaet, Berlin.
Troubled Neighbors…should be required reading for all political scientist, historians, economists and international relations scholars of Latin America. This fresh and comprehensive account of the development of US foreign policy toward Latin America is a welcome addition to the literature and provides much of the detail that has been missing in analyses of Inter-American relations since the end of the 1980s. Raymont, a noted journalist who has covered Latin America since the 1950s, offers a lens through which to view and understand the creation and implementation of US-Latin American relations over the administrations of these 12 presidents that is neither jingoistic nor anti-American in its thrust.
— The Latin Americanist
“For nearly half a century, Henry Raymont has been an acute observer of the interaction between the United States and Latin America. This perceptive and provocative book sums up the lessons we could—and should—have learned.”
— Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
Henry Raymont is one of the foremost historians of U.S.-Latin American relations since World War II. This book should be required reading for any student or U.S. official interested in the mistakes of the past, and the opportunities of the future.
— Andres Oppenheimer, Latin American Editor/Columnist, The Miami Herald
Henry Raymont belongs to that breed of liberal U.S. and European historians, writers, journalists, and professors who have studied and analyzed Latin America with different eyes than those who look at these countries as their backyard. His vision tends to be much more academic and intelligent than those of partisan government advisers with their tendency to impose political biases. His approach to the subcontinent provides a dose of sympathy, which allows the discovery of aspects and resources that remain invisible to those who are solely interested in a relationship of domination. Troubled Neighbors: US-Latin American Relations from FDR to the Present offers a lucid analysis of the past since Franklin Delano Roosevelt and anticipates some interesting conclusions about the future of the region.
— Daniel Samper Pizano, columnist, El Tiempo, Bogota
For several decades I have been a friend of Henry Raymont, a distinguished American journalist. In his long professional life, his columns in different American and Latin American papers he has been a dedicated analyst of Latin American politics and current events. I am looking forward of the publication of his book.
— Clara Nieto, Ponce de Leon
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